Fifty years ago today on November 5, 1955, Doctor Emmott L. Brown was hanging a clock above his toilet. He unexpectedly slipped and fell, thus hitting his head in the process. When he woke up he had a revelation. A vision in his head of what he would later call the flux capacitor. This revolutionary device is what makes time travel possible. Realizing the vision of that day took nearly all of Dr. Brown’s family fortune. Lucky for us, however, his work continues at the Institute of Future Technology facilities in Florida and California. Click here to check out the chronology of time travel events that have occurred thus far. Click here to read my detailed analysis of the events that occurred in the early morning hours of October 26, 1985. Thus far, no media or press have ever witnessed a temporal displacement event. This may change, but the real trick to time travel, according to Dr. Brown, is doing whatever is necessary to avoid getting caught. Disruption of the space-time continuum is also an on-going concern, but Dr. Brown has been careful about limiting out-of-temporal-stream excusions and alternate timeline skew events after he went through a series of unfortunate mishaps in the mid-1980s. We salute you, Dr. Brown, and your future (or past) work, whatever — or whenever — that may be.